Right now, traditional media networks box in creators by demanding they make 100s of versions of the same content, sticking to just one niche
This happens to painters, video creators, and even people who write on this website
May 2, 2022 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
Just finished exiting all of my Ape related NFTs
now that Yuga has revealed their true colors, I can't unsee it
con artists of the highest order
It took me a long time to learn this lesson in crypto, but it is 1000% never worth it to stand by in ignorance, while you watch people you're associated with use dark manipulation techniques on unwitting people
Sep 21, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Now the Satoshi LARP is trying to tell us that he launched a token on behalf of us without my permission because he wanted to help “the creators […] to capture and accrue value on the platform before they’ve even joined”
“We’re building a blockchain for social media” [why do comms require consensus?] “to help take down incumbent social platforms”
as bad as Facebook is at coercing people into giving them their data/likeness, at least they ask
Diamondhands doesn’t— he just takes it
Sep 20, 2021 • 18 tweets • 11 min read
@zhusu@alee Su, I’m sorry but I think you’re deeply deeply wrong. I think you’re too smart to be talking your high risk book to this degree, especially at this point in the market cycle. Sure, short term gains can be fun (there was a killing to be made on XRP in past cycles)… (cont’d)
@zhusu@alee …but your audience isn’t going to be able to move into safer ecosystems in time and will get absolutely rinsed on the way down
you’ve given me a ton of free alpha via your YouTube appearances, so consider this my attempt to return the favour
Sep 19, 2021 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
if the sedona’s prove anything it’s that some people think that normcore Americana will be a meaningful part of future meme-vocabularies
inb4 NFT versions of waiting in line at the drive thru, XXL sized beverages, and other key symbols & experiences of this era
Jul 19, 2021 • 17 tweets • 5 min read
might have figured out a way to do NFT collateralized loans in @_anishagnihotri’s DMs
TLDR the NFTs sit in an active auction whose highest bid is essentially used as collateral
@_anishagnihotri step 1. User deposits their NFT into the contract and initiates an auction for it
this auction is special though - the highest bid deposit may not be withdrawn, unless it is beaten or the loan corresponding to the NFT is fully paid
Aug 25, 2020 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
The Wachowskis are the most brilliant filmmakers of our time. They have pushed the medium forward more than any other director(s) I've ever seen - it's incredible how they can impart so much wisdom in such an elegant manner.
The Matrix get's all of the praise, but Cloud Atlas is in my opinion even more amazing. The former feels like a (necessary) destructive cultural meme, while the latter provides a foundation for rebuilding ones sense of meaning in life.
Jul 2, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
The correct answer was MetaCoin.sol - congrats to the 44% of you who got this right!
Happy Wednesday and 🇨🇦Canada Day🇨🇦! Let's do some #Solidity developer trivia.
I will go through all of the correct answers tomorrow. No cheating please!
Question 1. What was the name of the first smart contract that the original version of Remix gave you to play with?
Jun 16, 2020 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
Child labor is not necessarily slavery, and the mindset that it is reflects a privileged lack of understanding.
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Background: my parents are old Russian immigrants to Canada, and I had the privilege of receiving a progressive public education, which included discussions of child labor as slavery.
May 12, 2020 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
In this next decade, non-tech co's will learn to operate like tech co's, and tech co's will learn how hard it is to run like a traditional business.
Traditionals that win will be those whose product/ops begin to deeply integrate the internet (rather than seeing it as just another channel).
Tech Co's that win will be those who understand the complexities of operating in meatspace and mastering logistics.
Mar 18, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
The issue of executives continuously buying back shares to extract value for equity holders is just another symptom of a larger problem— that equity holders can have an extremely short-term orientation and neglect stakeholders who require a longer-term outlook to survive.
It’s the same thing as companies cutting corners environmentally in favour of profits. Executives are often paid based on their ability to think short-term, to benefit current shareholders above all other stakeholders.
Dec 18, 2019 • 88 tweets • 21 min read
Okay it looks like I’m going to be spending a while at the airport tonight.
1 like = 1 hot take about crypto
Will try to keep the spice levels appropriately high
1. Most crypto conferences/hackathons are just excuses for the same groups of people to travel the world and party together. While they’re still net value-add for most stakeholders (including our ecosystem as a whole), the lavish spending is a huge risk factor to our success.
Oct 31, 2019 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
How does Ethereum go about decentralizing the creation of culture? Right now our space feels like an echo chamber because it favours the voices of the few rather than the many. We see this on CT and at conferences, where those with clout gets you orders of magnitude more views.
We've obviously run into scaling issues (haha!) since our time is bounded, as are the # of speaking slots at conferences, accounts you can follow, etc.
How do we move towards a world where the #EthereumProletariat has a voice? Where the little guys/girls don't get drowned out?
Oct 11, 2019 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
As time goes on, it seems dapps on Ethereum can be cleanly segmented into two parts: functionality to help communities do things together, and functionality for the globe to do things together.
For the former, a sharded future is quite sensible— have each community live within their own shards, with low costs of txns within the community (and more expensive txns when interactions occur outside of the community).
Sep 24, 2019 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Been thinking a lot about Satoshi, and the idea of having people contribute to knowledge-bases without being able to prove authorship.
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When the Satoshi's were working on the original Whitepaper, blockchains didn't exist. In that time, there was no way that any single member could prove that they authored/saw a piece of content first, since there was no 3rd party chain on which they could store a hash.
Sep 21, 2019 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
It seems Ethereum faces an issue from those who propose contentious protocol changes, whereby supporters will continue to fight if they believe the issue is of high importance, but detractors can’t simply ignore them when they believe the issue isn’t important.
Unimportant issues become important by virtue of convincing enough people of their importance, so that those who disagree need to spend at least as much time fighting. Stealing people’s time and attention is still an attack vector!
Sep 21, 2019 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
After having spent the week in Egypt, I have to say that Karnak is by far the most impressive, of all the monuments I’ve had a chance to see.
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Although Karnak isn’t the largest of the Egyptian monuments (those three pyramids do still take the cake), it was still far more interesting to visit. It differs from most global monuments in one primary way: it wasn’t constructed on behalf of any single individual or group.
Aug 16, 2019 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Friday reading thanks to Teddy Roosevelt, who seems to have understood decentralization far better than most leadershipnow.com/tr-citizenship…
"for some of the most valuable work needed by civilization is essentially non-remunerative in its character, and of course the people who do this work should in large part be drawn from those to whom remuneration is an object of indifference"
Aug 8, 2019 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
1/ Hot take of the day: George Harrison may have been the most important member of The Beatles. Not only was he in the same talent echelon as Lennon & McCartney, George also was the humble glue that held the group together when John and Paul quarrelled.
2/ George certainly earned his own share of the limelight, but never demanded it the way John and Paul did. Sure the individuals could have existed and produced great art independently, but I’m not sure they could have done it together without George.
